Improvement in seeding-attachment to hoes



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN: A

' Be it known that I,'EDWIN L. BERGSTRESSER, of Hnblersbur'g', county of Centre, and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seeding-Attachment to Hoes; and I do hereby declare the followingr to be a full,l clear, and exact description of thev same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in which-"- i Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hoe with my improved seeding-attachment applied.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same,vaudd i Figure 3 is a plan view of the perforated Vfeed-.diskv detached.

Similar letters` oi' reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to a novel construction and arrangement of seeding-devices, to be used in connection with an ordinary l1oe,'as hereinafter described. i

A A represent a hoe, ofany usual ordesired construction, to which two circular/plates, B B', are secured, in the manner shown in figs. 1 and 2, the lower plate, B, being secured directly to the handle-A by means of screws or bolts, and the upper plate B being provided with straps or flanges, `I b, through which it is united to the handle A'and blade A. 'Ihe upper circular plate has 'a ange, b', upon its lower` edge, and upon its upper face Vis provided with a short tube or hopper, C, to which is connected the lower end of a seed-bag or receptacle, D, which may be made oi' any suitable material, such as leather, cloth, wood, or sheet metal, arranged over the handle, and secured at its upper end thereto, for giving it a proper support. If preferred, however, the handle of the hoe itself lmay be made hollow, and used as the'seed-receptacle. E is a anged perforated seed-disk, arranged between thedisks B B', and enclosed or surrounded by the ange b" on the former, the anges e, four or morein number, projecting underneath the flanged', and forming urnas, through which, by means of a sliding rod, F, the operator isv enabled to vibrate the said seed-disk upon a central pivot, e,vwhich passes through disks B B'and E, as represented in tig. 2. The disk E has a series of perforations of different sizes, and correspending in number to the nuniber of arms c. c is a brush or striker, arranged at one side of the hopperatube, which serves to regulate the'quantity of seed'conveyed froml the` seed-receptacle at each vibration of disk E. Gr is a seed-tube, connected to the lower .plate B' at an angle of twenty to thirty degrees (more or less)r with the hopper C, and inclined in such direction as to deposit the seed passing throughs-the same in .front of the bladeA. l

In operation, the disk E is vibrated by means of rod F and one of thelanges e, to bring one of the perforatious underneath the tube or hopper C, or outlet to theV seed-receptacle D, to receive the seed ther'c ,i`1o1n,

after which it is vibrated suiciently far to bring said perforation 'over-'the seed-tube G, allowing thev seed to escape through the saine, and to be deposited upon the ground in front of the hoe-blade A', and into the holei'crmed in the ground thereby for the reception of the seed when the hoe may beused for .covering the same.

Anyone of theperforations in the disk may he used, according to the kind of seed to be planted, or the number of grains it is desired to deposit in a hill, by siin'ply detachiug the rod F from one arm, e, adjusting the disk, and attaching the rod to another arm, e. The rod F may serve simply to move the perforations under neath hopper C, and a spri'ng may be applied to retract the disk E, to bring the perforation ovei` the seed-tube G, or thedisk may bc operated in both directionsl by the attendant, as preferred.

Having thus described my invention, what VI claim, and desire to secure by Letters,Patcnt,'is-

1. The adjustable vibrating-disk E, applied to and used in connection with the h'oe, substantially as described. l

2. The vstationary disks B B', or their equivalent, and vibrating perforateddisk E, arranged and operating substantially as described.

3. The disks D B' and E, hopper C, and seed-tube G, in combination with the hoe A. A', arranged-and operating as described- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my naine, this 25th day of January, 1868.

` EDWIN L, BERGSTRESSER.

Witnesses:

HENRY McEwan, s ANrnoNrCAuNEn. 

